Morris tribune., 1887-06-29
Il. w. RANDALL,
M'GLYNN AND HECHURCH
HIS REMARKS CONCERNING THE &C.
cLESlASTICAL MACHINE.
Published Wednesdays.

He Denies That He Is Outside the Pale of
the Church-Ths Time Coming When the
Church VIII Not Fight His Theories-Dr.
McGlynn's Old Parishioners Determined
to Garry on the Fight.
BUFFALO, June 27-Dr McGlynn started
for Chicago at S:S5 Friday evening. In con-
verSation he intensified the utterances which
he had publicly made while here. DR.. Nc
Glynn was seen at the Tiff house by re-
porter and the nature of Bishop Ryan's COM
ments on his recent utterances were reported
to him. He denied that he was outside the
pale of the church, and said he never resisted
the church's authority within its legitimate
sphere. Said he:
Ihave not tstarted out to reform the church of
God; nor even as said Thursday, am l so pre-
sumptuous as to hope to do much toward reform
ing the ecclesiastical machine which so sadly
needs it that it is simply false to deny it. Good,
though deSpiSed men, made necessary the de-
structive religious revolution of the sixteenth GEN.
tury. The cry was for reformation Of the
church. at its head the pope and his Roman court.
In spite of the council of Trent, abuses grew, cul
minating In the terrible French revolution.
Calico was condemned to prison and forced to re-
tract q scientific truth. This done by the In
QUESTION, OF which the pope Is chair.
man ex-officio. The bishop should
not imply, as he seems to do. that l was
invited to a conference in Rome. l was ordered
to condemn the doctrine before starting for
Rome and my failure to do so would have been
an additional offense to be punished in Rome. AS
regards papal delegates to various nations, the
bishop might remember that st. Bernard once
found it proper TO caution the pope to choose
legates who would not accept presents, which is
of course, only mild word for bribes, and would
return as poor as they went.
To obey our Savior, must we obey every whm
and caprice Of the pope, especially in matters of
which he is grossly ignorant: The pres
ent pope actually said to the biSh-
that he supposed they must have come by the
Isthmus OF Panama. The religion of Italy has
been sacrificed to the politics of the pope and par
ticularly to his temporal power and in coquetting
with the cabinets of England Russia, and Prussia,
he is preparing to sacrifice precious rights and
liberties Of the church and clergy Of these coun-
tries to his diplomacy with the utterly foolish hope
that at this late days the pope's temporal powers
may be restored. I have as good right to assert
that Bishop Ryan, In condemning our economic
theories is condemntng what he does not under
stand, as he has to say that they ideal and i'm
of Galileo's ideal theories. 1t called
them hcretical. The time viii come
when the church will not be found fighting our
theories for the same reason that the machine is
no longer fighting Galiloes theories. 1t is poor
comfort for people who are struggling for scien-
tinc advancement for national development and |
for national liberty to know that the ecclesiastical
machine which Is now repressing, calun1niating
and condemnng will, after these good things are |
achieved in spite Of it, be willing enough in 100
years from now to sing 'Te Deums,'' for which it
shall be well paid.
DR.. McGlynn said that the George theories |
were already well formulated and they did |
not oppose the laws of society,
The Rev. DR.. McGlynn arrived in Chicago |
at $50 Saturday morning over the Lake Shore |
road He was met by William Turnbull, sec
retary of district assembly IA, and driven to |
his hotel